1.   Half the population remains desperately poor.

2.   For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand.

3.   Though the whole population remained the focus of interest, sampling techniques enabled it to be studied economically.

4.   But the population remains militant in its rejection of the new reality.

5.   State corrections officials in California, Texas and Pennsylvania all report that their prison populations have remained roughly flat over the last year, after years of steady increases.

6.   The population has remained more stable and the economy more diversified.

7.   Unhindered by the influx of genes for eating other plants, each population remains specialized to its own host.

8.   Yet apart from one qualification, the population remains as diverse as ever, a medley of white, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and Hong Kong Chinese.